Sculpture as Performance 'Again & Again: Revisited' at Soho House, Brighton
‘Again & Again’ sculpture as performance will be revised & developed for the next event with the Adelaide Salon:
At Brighton Beach House - Soho House
Thursday 24th September 2026
7pm-10:30pm
Including ROSA Magazine Autumn Issue Launch
Please RSVP theadelaidesalon@gmail.com
You are invited to a special Salon featuring talks, performance, art and video installations set across The Loft & Rock Room of Brighton Beach House. The Salon will also host ROSA Magazine Review of Sussex Arts with the launch and introduction to the Autumn issue. We are also delighted to welcome Hedley Swain, CEO of Brighton & Hove Museums, for a special conversation reflecting on the success of The Royal Pavilion & The Adelaide Salon Art Gala in May 2026. Together, we will look back at this extraordinary collaboration celebrating what can be achieved when cultural institutions come together, and exploring the future possibilities for contemporary art and heritage. Videography and photos of Art Gala also being shown.
At the heart of The Adelaide Salon is a belief that art thrives through connection, when disciplines cross fertilise, ideas are shared and unexpected conversations commence. Explore our website and instagram for further details on The Adelaide Salon.
Artist for the evening include Isobel Smith, The Writers Mark, Aisling Zambon, Andy Ash, Nina Garstang, Yara Wereik, Tim Lea Young and more to be announced.
We look forward to being together as we open a new artistic season and share our plans for the future here in Brighton and beyond.
Artist statement:
Sculpture as Performance Title: ‘Again And Again: Revisited’ (2026)
In May during the Brighton Festival Again And Again was performed at the Dome and The Royal Pavilion. It was a live sculpture performance centred on collaboration, tension, and repeated negotiation. Two bodies are bound together by stretch bands, creating a shifting physical connection that resists and responds to every movement. Through walking, pulling, yielding, and returning, we tested the give and take between us — a continuous exchange of force, balance, and intention.
On this occasion the work explored how relationships are shaped through physical, social, and spatial dynamics. Each action becomes a form of dialogue, where movement replaces language and tension reveals the complexities of cooperation, resistance, trust, and control. Repetition is central: through attempting, adjusting, and trying again, the performance examines limits, shared capacity, and the effort required to move together.
As a sculptural duet, Again And Again redraws the space through bodies in relation, asking how far collaboration can stretch before it pulls apart, and what becomes possible when two people remain connected.
At Soho House we are revisiting and revising the early sculpture performance piece. In this new iteration, the performance moves beyond the simple act of being bound together. The two performers begin separately, establishing their own relationships to the space before gradually encountering one another. Through walking, approaching, mirroring, stopping, leading and resisting, they negotiate distance and develop a physical dialogue before the bands are introduced. The material connection becomes a means of exploring trust, dependence, tension and shared capacity: how one body affects another, and how movement becomes possible through continual adjustment.
The performance is structured through repetition, but repetition becomes a way of learning rather than simply repeating an action. The performers test rules, establish patterns, disrupt them and try again. They explore how far they can move together, when cooperation becomes resistance, and what happens when individual intentions come into conflict with shared movement. The bands eventually come off, but the relationship they have created remains: movements are repeated, remembered and echoed without the physical connection. In this way, Again & Again: Revisited is both a revision, a prequel and a continuation — a sculpture made through bodies, material, space and time, asking what it means to remain connected while negotiating the limits of individual and collective possibility.
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